Road has no significance at all where there is no people. The land is now devastated by invisible horror of radioactive contamination.

Road has lost what it means when the land is devastated by the sea water flood and subsidence.

a check point on the way to the ground zero

R 45 reconstructed
Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

used to be Ohfunato line
now submerged and the rails taken away
Rikuzentakata, Iwate

used to be a rail crossing of Ohfunato line
Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Namie, Fukushima

Iitate, Fukushima

Namie, Fukushima

Namie, Fukushima

No Trespassing
Namie, Fukushima

The road is dead not because the quake devastated it but because our law prohibits any traffic. This is a river without running water. Then you would wonder if it is a river at all. The road is dead. It leads us to a village of serious radio activity which all the people evacuated. So you would regard the village is not a village any more, either.